Departments: Consultants

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much her Department spent on (a) management consultants and (b) other external consultants and advisers in each year since 2000; and which of these consultants undertook work for the Department with a total contractual value in excess of £10 million over this period. (146342)

The Department does not collect information on consultant spend in the format requested.

Total departmental spend on consultants was:

*Consultancy expenditure*
	£million
2004-05	111
2005-06	126

The following consultants undertook work for the Department with a total contractual value in excess of £10 million:

*Total annual consultancy expenditure accounted for by supplier for 2004-05 and 2005-06*
	Consultancy supplier name	£ million
1	Wragges	14.2
2	Addelshaw	10.8

It should be noted that these figures exclude VAT.

Volume 462: debated on Tuesday 10 July 2007